Sixteen-year-old Johnson Earns First USTA Pro Circuit Title at M15 Sunrise; Dostanic Claims First ATP Challenger Title; Former Collegians Shelton and Cerundolo Win ATP Titles; ITF Junior Circuit Update

©Colette Lewis 2026--

Dallas Texas--

Six consolation matches were on Sunday's schedule at the ITA Men's Division I Team Indoor Championships, and I watched Mississippi State's 4-3 win over Stanford and Florida's 4-1 win over SMU here in Dallas(John Isner was also in attendance for the latter), with the Clemson - Arizona State match yet to finish. They had another thriller in Waco today, with Wake Forest beating TCU 4-3 in a rematch of last year's Team Indoor and NCAA Team final. The match again came down to Wake's DK Suresh at No. 1, in a third set tiebreaker, and this time he came out on top, beating Duncan Chan 7-6(4), 6-7(2), 7-6(6) in a nearly three-hour contest.

All consolation results and individual scores can be found at iOnSport's live scoring app and page.

Monday's semifinals begin with Ohio State and Virginia at 3:30 pm Central, followed by Baylor and Texas, not before 6:30 pm. Cracked Racquets will provide the live stream, with commentary, at their YouTube channel.

American men won all three finals played today in the United States, and I'll start with the youngest champion, 16-year-old Southern Californian Andy Johnson. Johnson, who received an ITF junior reserved entry into the M15 in Sunrise Florida based on his year-end junior ranking of 29, defeated unseeded Dragos Nicolae Cazacu 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in today's final.

Johnson led 5-0 in the third set but never managed another hold. He had match points on return at 5-0 and 5-2, but never had one on serve, breaking Cazacu at 4-5, on his sixth match point, for the win. Johnson now joins Moise Kouame of France as the only players born in 2009 with ITF Men's Pro Circuit singles titles.

Unseeded John Sperle of Germany and Louis Tessa of France won the doubles title in Sunrise, beating No. 4 seeds Joao Victor Couto Loureiro of Brazil and Tsz Fu Wong of Hong Kong 6-4, 6-1 in the final.

Twenty-four-year-old qualifier Stefan Dostanic, the Most Outstanding Player of last year's Men's Team Indoor here at SMU while at Wake Forest, earned his first ATP Challenger title today at the Baton Rouge 50, beating top seed Alexis Galarneau(NC State) of Canada 6-4, 6-1 in his first Challenger final.

Dostanic was no doubt helped by Galarneau's 34 unforced errors, but he served well, facing only one break point in the match while converting all four break opportunities he had. Dostanic, who spent four years at USC before joining Wake, is up to a career-high ATP ranking of 354 with this title.

At ATP 500 Nexo Dallas Open, just 40 minutes north of here, 2022 NCAA champion Ben Shelton(Florida) saved three match points in his 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Taylor Fritz to claim his fourth ATP title. For more on the 23-year-old's victory, see this article from the tournament website.

Another former collegian also earned his fourth ATP title today, this one at the 250 level, with Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina defeating Luciano Darderi of Italy 6-4, 6-2 at the IEB+ Argentina Open in Buenos Aires. The 27-year-old Cerundolo, who played briefly at South Carolina, is No. 19 in the ATP rankings. See the ATP's article for more on the final.

I usually review the ITF Junior Circuit results of Americans on Monday, but because the ITA Men's Team Indoor Championships semifinals will be occupying all of my attention, I'll post that information tonight instead.

In addition to Janae Preston's title at the ITF J300 in Peru, which I covered in Saturday's post, three other Americans claimed singles titles on the ITF Junior Circuit.

In 2026's first ITF Junior Circuit event in the United States, a J30 in Hawaii, 17-year-old Ashley Kurizaki won the title in her ITF Junior Circuit debut, beating Amara Ama 6-1, 6-2 in the all-USA final. Unseeded Lucy Graci and Ania Zabost won the doubles title, beating top seeds Quinn Sommer and Canada's Sophia Montemurro 5-7, 7-5, 10-6 in the final. Top seeds Grant Kleppinger and Peter Nistad won the boys doubles title, beating No. 4 seeds Luca Sevim and Luxembourg's Evan Palumbo  5-7, 7-6(5), 10-6.

At the J60 in Guatemala, unseeded 16-year-old Ellery Mendell won her second ITF Junior Circuit singles title, beating top seed and doubles partner Romina Dominguez Garcia of Mexico 6-1, 6-2 in the final. No. 2 seeds Dominguez Garcia and Mendell lost in the doubles final to top seeds London Evans and Italy's Asia Sundas 6-3, 6-7(3), 10-4.

Unseeded 16-year-old Dhakshish Aryan Basavaraju won his first ITF Junior Circuit title in boys singles, beating No. 2 seed Harold Cotom Hidalgo of Guatemala 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 in the final.  

At the ITF J200 in the Dominican Republic, unseeded 15-year-old Hannah Ayrault, the 2025 San Diego 16s champion, reached the final, where she lost to No. 2 seed Emily Eigelsbach of Germany 2-6, 6-4, 6-0. Ayrault had beaten top seed Sofiia Bielinska of Urkraine 7-6(3), 6-2 in the quarterfinals.

No. 2 seeds Ireland O'Brien and Canada's Andrea Cabio won the girls doubles title, beating top seeds Bielinska and Ophelia Korpanec Davies of Great Britain 6-2, 6-4 in the final.

No. 3 seeds Zavier Augustin and Germany's Eric Mueller won the boys doubles title, beating the fourth-seeded Canadian team of Joshua Adamson and Caden Colburne 6-4, 6-2 in the championship match.

Enya Hamilton and Autumn Xu won their second girls doubles title in as many weeks at J60s in Mexico, with the No. 6 seeds beating No. 7 seeds Valentina Galvan Solorzano and Mar Miramontes of Mexico 6-1, 6-1 in the final in Zapopan.